Didn't think the week would go so quickly.

Great afternoon at the Match Club for our first Short Cuts Canada Round table. At a festival this size, there's a lot of industry, and talk about big deals, it's easy to forget about the emerging market for shorts. SCC filmmakers had a great opportunity to have meetings with distributors, buyers, funders, and any one else you can imagine who deals with short films. Great opportunity for our short filmmakers to network and realize (for those with first films) that making your short is just half the fun. The other half is getting people to see it! That's where the round table came it with industry folk from across the country and internationally.

 Not to mention, what a great chance for the industry to meet the incredible talent behind the 40 shorts at our festival, and put faces and names to the great films they've seen. 

 With all this excitement, it's hard to believe we have only one screening left. The repeat of programme 3 is on Friday night at 7pm at Jackman Hall. Word has spread far and wide about this fantastic line up (and people's last chance to feed their need for shorts on the big screen), so get in the rush line soon, as tickets are sold out!

 Speaking of audiences we were very pleased to host Robert Lepage at the premiere of programme 4. Mr. Lepage was the inspiration behind the concept for Danse Macabre, and it was very generous of him to join us for the entire screening.

 Keep watching for some festival highlight postings to come in the next few days.